The idea that current capitalist pathologies arise because the capitalism of markets and productivity has disappeared. The idea that Amazon Inc. should be broken up because of its monopoly power and anti-competitive practices, as professed by a think tank whose goal is nothing like a competitive market society. The idea of Eurocommunist parties that the working class isn’t to be praised but contested by, among others, middle class workers.
Time after time, making human behaviour more predictable for the client of prediction (the manager, the police officer) often means making life and work more unpredictable for the target of prediction (the employee, the urban citizen).
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231171053
Meanwhile I’ll be plotting to outwrite it; I want to be the first human being to imitate ChatGPT perfectly.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/m-john-harrison-i-want-to-be-the-first-human-to-imitate-chatgpt-wish-i-was-here?utm_term=6469c17386bac9427580944744a8948a&utm_campaign=Bookmarks&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=bookmarks_email
Large proportions of the Chinese collection are perhaps copies in the eyes of those collectors and dealers, who believe that authentic African art has become largely extinct due to diminishing numbers of active traditional carvers and ritual practices. However, the ideological structure and colonial history of authenticity loses its effects and meanings in China, where anything produced and brought back from Africa is deemed to be “authentically African”.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13696815.2021.1925089
WHEN COMPLEX IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS 